The walls are the three walls of the house around the patio area. There’s a pergola frame with has shach on it, but on two of the sides the roof tiling and drains overhang about 2 feet, then there’s a metal sukkah frame half under the pergola area with shach on it, supported on the metal by bamboo pole. There’s no wall around the protruding frame and it’s quite a bit lower than the pergola.
Hi there. Great question.
Under the pergola is Kosher. You can’t sit under the overhangs though.
Regarding the Sukkah frame, that’s a little more problematic. This is a question known as “Pesel Hayotzeh”, discussed in S"A 631:7. There’s a requirement that one of the Sukkah walls extend the length of the entire Sukkah.
It’s a little hard to tell from the pictures but it doesn’t appear like the Sukkah frame lines up with the existing walls. It’s more centered in the middle.
The two solutions for you to get the framed part kosher is either by putting something as walls on three sides. It only has to be about 40" high. No need to go all the way up to the Schach.
Option 2 would be to extend one of the house walls outward, alongside the Sukkah frame, but that would require it to be in line with the Schach.
Chag Sameach
Thank you - here’s the new and improved version!
I’ve put a cloth around three sides of the frame and positioned the Sukkah frame so that it’s tight against the stone pillar that supports the pergola and so is in a line with the house wall but with a gap that serves as an entrance to the Sukkah (I’ve photographed from inside and out. There’s a little gap on the other side as the width of the frame is less than the patio width. I’ve positioned it that way as there is less overhang on the side with the pillar. The s’hach of the small Sukkot overlaps with the s’hach of the pergola.
Thank you again and chag sameach!
Beautiful! Chag Sameach
